diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 54e968650855..876bc595d0f8 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2129,13 +2129,20 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 	 * After a write we want buffered reads to be sure to go to disk to get
 	 * the new data.  We invalidate clean cached page from the region we're
 	 * about to write.  We do this *before* the write so that we can return
-	 * -EIO without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
+	 * without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
 	 */
 	if (mapping->nrpages) {
 		written = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
 					pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
-		if (written)
+		/*
+		 * If a page can not be invalidated, return 0 to fall back
+		 * to buffered write.
+		 */
+		if (written) {
+			if (written == -EBUSY)
+				return 0;
 			goto out;
+		}
 	}
 
 	written = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(WRITE, iocb, iov, pos, *nr_segs);
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 250505091d37..6650c1d878b4 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int do_launder_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
  * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to
  * invalidation.
  *
- * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
+ * Returns -EBUSY if any pages could not be invalidated.
  */
 int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 				  pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 			ret2 = do_launder_page(mapping, page);
 			if (ret2 == 0) {
 				if (!invalidate_complete_page2(mapping, page))
-					ret2 = -EIO;
+					ret2 = -EBUSY;
 			}
 			if (ret2 < 0)
 				ret = ret2;